Fall 2025

Mondays starting September 8th to November 24th from 5:30 PM to 8 PM

A Trauma-Informed Approach to Creating Safe Space

A 12-week experiential certificate program designed for individuals, facilitators, educators, space holders, and beyond.

Early-bird enrollment ends Sunday, August 3rd @ 11:59 PM PT

”One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.”

bell hooks

Program At-A-Glance

  • Are you ready to create transformative, liberating spaces for yourself and others?

    This program consists of 12 weekly sessions held on Mondays from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM.

    Our 12-week Trauma-Informed Program is thoughtfully designed for individuals seeking to deepen their understanding of trauma, develop practical tools to support healing, and foster resilience and well-being in themselves and others.

    During the program, you will:

    • Gain insights into trauma’s effects on the brain, body, and relationships

    • Explore the principles of racial, intergenerational, and personal trauma

    • Build skills to enhance emotional regulation, communication, and boundary-setting

    • Practice self-care techniques and resilience-building strategies rooted in somatic

    • Engage in group dialogue, experiential exercises, and critical thinking

    • Receive personalized feedback and support from Adria and participants from around the world

    ...and more.

    Ready to join?
    To enroll in the program, click here and complete your registration.

    We believe that healing is a collective process. Our community warmly welcomes individuals of all backgrounds and identities. Together, we can co-create a world where radical healing is not just a possibility but a lived reality.

  • This is a virtual program. Sessions are held via Zoom every Thursday from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM ET.
    As a global program, we do our best to accommodate (most) time zones.

    • 9.8 – Orientation

    • 9.15 – Understanding Trauma & Our 3-Part Brain

    • 9.22 – Our Nervous System & Polyvagal Theory

    • 9.29 – Somatics: How the Body Stores Trauma

    • 10.6 – Trauma-Informed Principles

    • 10.13 – Intergenerational Trauma

    • 10.20 – Somatics: Release, Transmute, Integrate

    • 10.27 – Workshop #1: Reimagining Safety in Shared Spaces

    • 11.3 – Love as a Practice

    • 11.10 – The Art of Communication

    • 11.17 – Workshop #2: Trauma-Informed Language in Action

    • 11.24 – Radical Healing Celebration

    • The foundations of the mind-body connection, Polyvagal theory, and how the body intelligently stores traumatic experiences.

    • Practical tools for emotional self-regulation.

    • Practical ways to deploy boundaries and uphold the well-being of relationships.

    • How to hold dynamic space by building skills in empathy, language, and energy.

    • How to use love as an action to create safety and promote community.

    • How to integrate trauma-informed practices into your specific work and field.

    • And more…

  • Throughout our program, you will receive more than 40 hours of trauma-informed education. Individuals will be required to engage in:

    • Attend at least 10 LIVE sessions

    • (10) hours of somatic practice

    • Completion of the pre- and post-program survey

    • Complete the required readings

    Attendees receive a 40-hour certificate after completing the above + submitting full payment.

    This is not a licensure or certification program.

  • This is not just another trauma-informed program.

    The School of Radical Healing is a space where the personal and political are inseparable. Where healing is not sanitized or stripped of context. This program is led by a queer, biracial Black woman who identifies as a survivor. Our community is made up predominantly of Black, Indigenous, people of color andthose most impacted by systems of harm and most deserving of rest, care, and collective repair.

    We bring together science, spirit, and the how-tos. Bridging neuroscience and somatics with storytelling, lived experience, and real-life tools. Our work doesn’t just acknowledge white supremacy and capitalism, we name them as active, violent forces working to fragment our well-being..

    You’ll be invited to study the ways trauma shows up in the body and how it shapes our language, relationships, and choices. We go deep into liberating the language of the mindfulness industry to create true accessibility for all bodies, all experiences, all people.

    This is a space for truth-telling and transformation. Through this work, you’ll begin to understand that people are not your project, you are your project. Healing starts within, and extends outward with care.

    We offer accessible pricing and flexible payment plans, because healing should never be gated by wealth.

Early-bird enrollment ends Sunday, August 3rd @ 11:59 PM PT

What SORH Alumni are saying…

  • It had a deep impact on visually seeing and viscerally experiencing what trauma-informed practices looked and felt like. She always brought the topics we were studying in the reading materials to real examples in our lives, and helped me to understand that trauma-informed practice isn't just a nice 'add-on', but rather a core consideration - whether in our relationships with ourselves or with others. The thing that surprised me the most was how much this program softened me inside. I think I had an unconscious belief that doing a trauma-informed program would, in some way, require me to re-live past traumas in a way that felt really uncomfortable. But actually, it helped me to reevaluate my life (past and present) with a new lens of compassion, gentleness, grace, and love. This program has done deep work inside of me and I will forever be grateful.”

    — Layla Saad, CEO, Author, Speaker, Educator

  • With everything that is happening in our world, I knew I needed specific tools to support my clients and SORH did exactly that. Not only did I receive the tools needed to support my clients, but this course was absolutely healing for me. It also opened my eyes to communities I was not receiving safety and ending those relationships. I can only imagine how this world can be a better place if it was more trauma-informed. Adria has been such a beautiful mentor and I’ve been raving about her and the program to everyone. If you have any questions about joining, feel free to message me.”

    — Elaine Lou Cartas, M.S, Business and Career Coach for WOC And Allies

  • “Thank you for facilitating such a thought-provoking experience, from the application process to the last session. I learned so much about trauma-informed principles and how to realistically apply them in real life scenarios. The sessions were impactful and spiritually empowering, too. I feel strengthened and supported to keep showing up for my community, from my family to those I have yet to meet. These kinds of programs remind me of how deeply bonded I am with others in the world, whether we know each other or not. I'm excited to keep practicing, growing, and integrating. This was such a blessing and I'm glad that I am at a place where I can whole-heartedly receive it.”

    — 2024 Alumni

“Trauma-Informed care is defined as practices that promote a culture of safety, empowerment, and healing.”

— Dr. L. Elizabeth Lincoln

Program Investment

The SORH is committed to providing equitable and accessible trauma-informed education to practitioners of all backgrounds.

Choose Your Early-Bird Payment Option Below

Early-bird enrollment ends Sunday, August 3rd @ 11:59 PM PT

Upon registration, you will receive a welcome email with further details on the program.

 About Your Facilitator

I’m Adria, and I serve those most impacted by current & past oppressive states, institutions, and practices. As a biracial Black woman actively healing Crohn’s disease and C-PTSD, I show up in wellness differently.

May we always meet at the intersection and help each other find our way.

At the young age of 12, I was diagnosed with the chronic illness Crohn’s disease, an autoimmune & inflammatory disease that was a constant source of suffering through my teens and early twenties. In 2013, my sickness had become life-threatening and I underwent emergency surgery, was put on life support, and was hospitalized for 60 days.

As I awoke to the sound of my breath echoing through an oxygen tube, so too did I awaken to a newfound gratitude for the breath, as well as a commitment to face my illness from a different perspective, but the trials weren’t over yet. As a result of the medical trauma I experienced, I developed clinical PTSD, anxiety, and depression, and in 2014 I attempted to take my own life.

Surviving meant moving forward, but how? When the experiences don’t solely live in your mind, but in your body.

Overcome with grief and severe somatic disruption, I became determined to heal. I knew my mind was no longer connected with my body and I had to start there. I had to get back into my body if I was ever going to live my life again.

Intuitively, my body led me to yoga. I don’t know why and I don’t know how, but I found myself in a hot room for 90 minutes stretching my precious being, scar and all. I was coming home to my body and I didn’t even know it.

I was inflexible and unfamiliar with the philosophy of yoga, and oftentimes, I was the only brown woman in the room, but I had found a medicine that was aiding me in my journey and so I made a commitment to the practice. Through yoga, I could see, feel, hear myself again. The practice stimulated my mind, body, and spirit and I was immediately inspired to share the practice with any and everyone I knew. In 2016 I pursued my 200-hour Yoga Certification through Yoga Shelter located in Southfield, MI.

In 2017, I launched The Art of Yoga, my debut event foreshadowing many successes to come. Hosted downtown at the esteemed Detroit is the New Black, centering BIPOC guests, the night-fused yoga instruction with free-form painting. A safe space to move, create and be in the community.

My leadership in Detroit through wellness caught the attention of several media outlets including HOUR Detroit and I would be honored to grace the cover and pages of their 2018 Health Guide. In the same year,  lululemon invited me to serve as an ambassador to their downtown Detroit store and in collaboration, I launched my first trauma-informed yoga program for 120 youth at Detroit’s Downtown Boxing Gym, where young BIPOC boys and girls from the community continue to be inspired to open their bodies and minds to the restorative practice of yoga.

From diagnosis to life support to digital features on Yoga Journal to holding the stage with NBA professional Derrick Rose, normalizing the conversation around mental health and wellness, I began to define my journey as “Radical Healing”. It’s not solely the accomplishments, but the living experience of reclaiming what was lost through trauma.

In 2020, I launched the School of Radical Healing, this digital liberation space you’re in right now, that teaches self-regulation and promotes trauma recovery through somatics, love, and language. The school has since educated hundreds of individuals, practitioners, and educators through classes, workshops, and our Trauma-Informed Facilitator Program.

Currently, I lead trauma-informed keynotes and workshops at companies and universities like LinkedIn and CUNY, speaking to the art of self-regulation and promoting well-being through mindfulness.

I am an RYT-200 Yoga Instructor and carry a certificate as a Trauma-Informed Teacher through Connection Coalition. Beyond my practice, I am a voice of empowerment to many through my social media and I work with powerful women through my Elevate 1:1 Coaching Program.

I have committed my experiences and expertise to create dynamic spaces for practitioners, educators, facilitators from all backgrounds, to practice their agency, empathy, communication, and love. I am passionate about empowering people to uplift themselves to uplift the collective.

FAQs

  • Social Workers, Mental Health Professionals, Yoga Therapists & Teachers, Meditation Teachers, Physicians (MD, DO, ND, DC & others) & Physician Assistants, Nurses & Nurse Practitioners, Midwives & Doulas, Educators, Coaches, Body Workers, Alternative Medicine Professionals, Clergy & Religious Leaders, other Wellness Professionals, and anyone seeking to gain a deeper understanding the power of somatics, love, and language.

    This is an education program and not a licenser program.

  • 10 hours of somatic practice(s) and completing the readings.

  • Yes, we grant scholarships to Black women, femmes, and lgbtq+.

    You can apply here.

  • Enrollment ends September 1st, 2025 at 11:59 PM PT.

  • Yes. Attendees receive a passcode to access all replays via the SORH website.

  • Throughout our program, you will receive more than 35 hours of trauma-informed education. Individuals will be required to engage in:

    • (30) hours of Learning and Community (watching recordings also contributes to these hours).

    • (10) hours of somatic practice.

    • Completion of the pre and post-program survey.

    • Completing the readings

    Attendees receive a 40-hour certificate after completing the above + submitting full payment.

    This is not a licensure or certification program.

  • At this time, the SORH is not offering CEUs. We look forward to implementing this in the future.

  • There are no refunds issued for this program, however, we understand life happens.

    Should you have to forgo participation for a current session, we will issue a full credit for 1 year to apply towards future programs.

Early-bird enrollment ends Sunday, August 3rd @ 11:59 PM PT